漢字Kanji · in Nature & Elements
月: month, moon
Oracle bone · Shang Bronze · Shang Small seal · Qin Today
Oracle bone: Wikimedia Commons, traced from Academia Sinica, CC0. Bronze and small seal: Academia Sinica 小學堂, CC0. Today’s form: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Three readings, and the words that use each
ゲツgetsu · on'yomi · in compounds
- 来月らいげつnext month
- 月曜日げつようびMonday
- 先月せんげつlast month
- 今月こんげつthis month
- 満月まんげつfull moon
ガツgatsu · on'yomi
- 正月しょうがつNew Year
- 生年月日せいねんがっぴbirth date
つきtsuki · kun'yomi · on its own
- 月見つきみmoon viewing
- 毎月まいつき/まいげつevery month
Words: Kanji alive, CC BY 4.0.
Where it comes from
Origin · sourced
Pictogram (象形)
Pictographic representation of a crescent moon. Related to 夕 and interchangeable in the past, but both are unrelated to 多, in which it represents two pieces of meat stylized as 夕.
Source: Wiktionary, 月 (rev. 93428147), CC BY-SA 4.0
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“The silver glow of the moon! Imagine the quiet beauty of a full moon rising over a dark horizon, marking the passage of time.”
In ChineseSame character in simplified and traditional · yuè
Same form: 月 is written the same way in mainland China (simplified) and in Taiwan and Hong Kong (traditional).
- Simplified
- 月 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 月 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin yuè most common reading
Forms and pinyin: Unicode Unihan database (Unicode License v3). Pinyin lists the most common reading, not every reading.